Modern technology provides many previously inaccessible opportunities. Making a free call from a computer to a phone is now as easy as calling from a traditional telephone. There are many communication services, so we will consider the most popular in this article, and also pay attention to the pros and cons of this method of communication.
We call from the computer: what is needed for this
If you are about to make a call from a computer, then check how the microphone and sound device work. If there are any problems, either you will not hear the person you are talking to or he will not hear you. Of course, you need an Internet connection. And the higher the connection speed, the better. If the speed leaves much to be desired, in the conversation there will constantly be interference and hangs.
Services that provide a free call from a computer, as a rule, are built on one principle - you register on the site and get the opportunity to make calls for free, but with time limits. The duration of the free call depends on the remoteness of the region whose resident you want to contact.
You can call both mobile and landline numbers. It makes no difference which subscriber of the cellular network is the person you want to call. You need to contact the MTS number or call MegaFon for free - from a computer the call will be free in both cases.
Often you are given a certain limit of free minutes - for example, 100 minutes per month, or 3 minutes per day. The second option - when registering a user, an account is opened on which there is already a modest amount for making calls - 10 rubles or 1 dollar. According to the same principle as with minutes, a small amount of money (5 rubles once a month) can come into your account at least once in a certain period of time. It is believed that for a call you officially pay money from the account, but in fact it turns out to make a free call from a computer.
What makes such services survive? Free minutes in limited quantities is a way to attract users who will pay for more minutes - as a rule, this is much cheaper than long-distance calls over a regular telephone line.
Users who often use such services to call for free through a computer are recommended to use the browsers "Google Chrome" (Google Chrome) or "Firefox" (Firefox) - they are considered the fastest among analogues.
Why not Skype or Viber?
Most often, for communication on the Internet and video calls, we use programs and applications that usually do not require additional cash investments, but it is necessary that the same thing be installed on your interlocutor’s device. Skype and Viber are some of the most popular communication applications. If you can call from computer to computer via Skype, is it possible to call from computer to phone? It will be free of charge only under the following conditions:
- if the person you are calling has a smartphone with Skype installed, and not a regular push-button telephone;
- if the person is currently online with a smartphone.
For those who want to call from Skype to landline numbers or to mobile phones without the application installed, Skype provides a paid service. The tariff depends on which country you are going to call. For example, a minute of calling to the United States costs 2.3 cents, to India 1.5 cents, to France 8 cents to mobile phones and 2.3 cents to landlines.
A similar situation with the Viber. Call service for mobile and landline numbers is called Viber Out. The cost of a minute of call is comparable to the tariffs of Skype. Calls to landline numbers always come out cheaper than to mobile. In order to use these services, you will need to replenish your Skype or Viber account balance in advance.
Online Calls Service
In order to call from this site, you will need to go through the registration process. Registration is simple and quick, you can even use your VKontakte account. After registration, go to the main page and dial the required number.
This service also has a smartphone application available for installation on both Android and iPhone. After downloading it, you can both make a call from a computer to a mobile phone for free, or from a mobile phone, subject to the availability of Wi-Fi. But the site has a rather strict time limit - one free call per day lasting only one minute.
Zadarma.com
The Zadarma.com project also provides the opportunity to make a free call from a computer to a phone after registering on the site. In addition, this service provides the "virtual number" service - you can choose a number similar to a landline in Russia or even a number from another country, and then receive calls to it. By this number you can get through not only to the computer: the call forwarding service is available.
User reviews about the Zadarma project diverge. Some note cheapness and convenience, others - poor technical support, poor communication and the complexity of technical settings. But if you are going to use the service exclusively for free calls, then the only thing worth worrying about is possible interruptions in communication.
After registration, you will receive 30 minutes of free calls to 40 countries in your account. When the minutes are exhausted, you have to replenish the account by at least 9.5 dollars. After that, you will have another 400 free minutes. The money will remain in your account - it can be used either for calls to paid destinations, or after the limited minutes expire.
Call2Friends.com
A foreign analogue of the free call service. Just like domestic sites, Call2friends allows you to make free calls from your computer, but the creators immediately warn that the quality of communication with a free call may be worse, since the cheapest communication channels are used for this. You can call directly from the browser, without installing any additional applications.
YouMagic.com
Another representative of Internet telephony. After registering on the site, the user receives a Russian phone number with the code of one of the major cities and can make calls from him around the world. You can call a mobile phone from your computer for free using YouMagic, limiting yourself to a limit of 5 free minutes per day. For this, you also have to download a special program from the site.
YouMagic also provides a promotion tariff - the opportunity to use the service for 7 days for free: you get a city number and you can make outgoing calls to numbers in the connected region, as well as receive incoming calls from all over the world. However, a limit of 5 minutes per day per call continues to apply. If after a week you do not replenish the balance, all connected services of the promotion tariff are blocked.
Sipnet.ru
The system of operation "Sipnet.ru" is similar to other services. You register on the site and call either directly from the "My Account" in a browser, or download software to your computer - software called Sippoint. Sipnet is more suitable for business use - using this service you can create your own telephone network for a company with internal short numbers.
Jaxtr.com: free, but not really
Abroad, this service is used to make calls to another country at the local communication tariffs. On the main page of the site’s page, you don’t immediately understand this - information about the fact that calls are still not absolutely free is contained in the section “How it works”. But Jaxtr.com allows you to encrypt your phone number. This is actively used by page owners who want to keep in touch with visitors to the site, but do not want to publish their real phone number on the Internet.
FreeCall: free, but not immediately
FreeCall service promises you free minutes and calls to different directions, but only on one condition - at least 10 euros must remain on the account.
Therefore, if you want to call a mobile phone from a computer for free with the initial complete lack of funds, this site is useless for you.